Authors and Illustrators Database

Bela Hubbard

Born: 04/23/1814  Hamilton, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 06/13/1896
Parents: Thomas Hill and Phebe Hubbard (Father, a lawyer, served two terms in Congress)
Spouse: Sarah Eliza Baughman
Children: Several
Address(es):
Interred:
Elmwood Cemetery
Detroit, MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Lake Superior Journal: Bela Hubbard's Account of the 1840 Houghton Expedition Michigan History Adult Northern Michigan University Press 1983
Memorials of a Half-Century in Michigan and the Lake Region Michigan History Adult New York ; London : G.P. Putnams' Sons 1887-1888
The Climate of Detroit, Michigan
- an essay read before the Detroit Scientific Association Lodge's Pharmacy
Non Fiction, Michigan Adult Detroit, Mich. : Lodge's Pharmacy 1872
Reports of Wm. A. Burt and Bela Hubbard, esqs., on the Geography, Topography and Geology of the U.S. Surveys of the Mineral Region of the South Shore of Lake Superior, for 1845 Non Fiction Adult Detroit : Printed by C. Wilcox 1846

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Other - Geologist

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Allibone: a Critical Dictionary of English Literature
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Dictionary of American Authors
Dictionary of North American Authors
National Cyclopaedia of North American Biography
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Studied Law
- Admitted to the Bar in 1842
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1841-1842
Graduated Hamilton College Hamilton, NY 1834

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Vice President Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan 1874
Executive committee
- proposed an agricultural school, drafted proposal to Michigan legislature, Michigan Agricultural College (Michigan State University) approved 1855.
Michigan State Agricultural Society Lansing, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1849-1855
Editor and columnist Western Farmer Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1842-1843
Assistant geologist for state geologist Douglass Houghton
- Major field work undertaken by Hubbard for the survey included a coast survey of the Lake Huron and Michigan shores of the Lower Peninsula, done with Houghton in 1838; surveys of Wayne and Monroe Counties, also in 1838; and a survey of the Lake Superior coast and the copper region of Keweenaw Point with Houghton, in 1840.
Michigan State Geological Survey Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1837-1841
Farmer, real estate developer Springwells area, near Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1835-1837
Founding member Association of American Geologists
Corresponding secretary, president
- served as corresponding secretary and, in 1845, as president.
Young Men's Society of Detroit Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent

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